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Today, at an online event, Microsoft is discussing how technology can improve employee engagement and communications; we have embedded the live stream so that you can view the conference.

Since Office 365 appeared in 2011, Microsoft’s collaboration story has varied according to whatever technology is available. Originally based on Exchange and SharePoint, it’s gone through Yammer, Office 365 Groups, and now Teams. You’d be forgiven for being confused by the frequent changes in the strategy du jour. And now we have inner and outer loops to consider, at least according to Microsoft’s favorite collaboration slide. Here’s my take.

Aidan Finn shows you how to deploy an internal Azure Service Environment, which will share its hosted app services via an internal load balancer.

In today’s corporate environment IT administrators typically need to manage many different remote systems but it’s important to know the gaps in these offerings too.

Amazon recently announced a new pricing model for its EC2 Spot Instance offering, which makes it easier to purchase spare AWS compute power with fewer service interruptions than before.

Because I told you so, this edition of Short Takes looks Microsoft’s future in cloud gaming, Intel’s plans to fix security flaws, Microsoft’s new bug bounty, Samsung’s rocky year, and much more.

Microsoft upgraded their EOP anti-spoofing capabilities inside Office 365, which is good, but they didn’t tell anyone. The first users knew was when they started to receive messages stamped with “the sender failed our fraud detection checks” – something that is never assuring. This only applies to ATP customers, but it’s not the first time Microsoft has failed to communicate important news.

In today’s Ask the Admin, Russell Smith shows you how to get started with the Chocolatey package manager for Windows.

Exchange Online has two new PowerShell cmdlets to help administrators recover deleted email on behalf of users. You can now search for deleted items and recover found items without having to sign into a user’s mailbox, something that will be popular with both administrators and users alike. The joy of helping users find email they deleted and can’t find themselves…

Aidan Finn shows you how to deploy the “public” version of App Service Environment (ASE), where the app services are shared through a single, simple public IP address.

Microsoft is adding two new regions to its cloud platform while also turning on services in other countries as products begin to reach general availability at new data centers.

Even though Teams only turned one this week, the company has begun testing a PWA version of the platform with a small group of users.